BOULDER — A former University of Colorado employee filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired after she reported being sexually harassed by a now-retired administrator, whom she claims encouraged her to call him “Dad” and view him as a father figure.
Kimberly Parker is suing the university and Jeffrey Luftig, who worked on the Boulder campus until June of this year, for retaliation and sex discrimination. Luftig had been associate vice chancellor for process innovation, a position created when the university launched its Office for Performance Improvement in 2013. The suit doesn’t include the specific damages sought.
Luftig led that office, which used data to help campus units with strategic planning and efficiencies, until February 2015, when the university announced that he was being replaced and would instead focus on “student success.” He retired a few months later.
In her complaint, which she filed in federal court in Denver at the end of September, Parker claims that Luftig encouraged her to view him as a father figure and then made sexual and romantic advances toward her for years, including when he was her direct supervisor. Her attorneys wrote that after Parker rejected him, Luftig became hostile.
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